![]() ![]() ![]() So what exactly went wrong and what happened to what was supposed to be a promising Warcraft 3 remake? According to Bloomberg, newly-revealed documents and anonymous sources point to mismanagement and lack of funding as the reason for the game’s failed launch. ![]() The team promised that they would introduce a few of the missing features post-launch but it’s now been 18 months and the updates are nowhere to be seen.īlizzard would later retract their promise of updating the game’s cinematic cutscenes because, in their own words, “We did not want the in-game cutscenes to steer too far from the original game.” Post-launch documentation, however, along with statements from Bloomberg’s sources, indicated that the game was rescoped because of budget cuts and disagreements over the game’s direction. Unfortunately, the remake didn’t do the original game justice and was not only riddled with bugs but was also missing features that Blizzard promised fans, including but not limited to updated cutscenes, re-recorded voiceovers, competitive ladder matches, and custom campaigns. Now, if something was that important you’d expect the studio to give the remake the attention it deserves, especially since the original title paved the way for World of Warcraft, one of the studio’s biggest revenue generators. Allen Breck first announced Warcraft 3: Reforged back in 2018, he described the original game as “monumentally important” for the studio and the franchise. ![]()
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